STRONG BAD:{typing}{in a high-pitched, mocking voice} Oooohhh! Why don't you creat an alternate reality where you don't have to spell correctly {short pause} and I talk like this. And your name is Watered Down! {Strong Bad clears the screen and continues typing in normal voice.} A montage, eh Watered Down? Like, about whatever? Okay. I'll make a montage about...

STRONG BAD: Oooh, or maybe a montage of me falling in love with the wagon full of pancakes.

{Heart wipe to Strong Bad in a boat with the wagon. They are both holding glasses of red wine, romantic music starts playing.}

{singing}

Let's make this moment be the symbol of our lives{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon listening to a Taranchula LP on headphones.}
We'll pawn your dad's computer {Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon, under the stars. Strong Bad points to some shooting stars in the distance.}
and we'll sail to paradise{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon spinning around, holding "hands".}{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon at the movies. Strong Bad drops some popcorn.}
You're a girl... or maybe a wagon... {Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon at Marshmallow's Last Stand. Strong Bad puts ketchup on some fries while laughing and smiling.}
filled up with pancakes{Cut to Strong Bad frolicking across a field as the wagon follows.}

STRONG BAD: Or maybe a montage of the wagon full of pancakes—

{Cut to a front door view of The Cheat and the wagon, both sporting business-class fedoras.}

{singing}
You can't do it so give up now
Whatcha gonna do when your dough runs out?
Ain't that a drag?{Cut to the wagon sitting in an arm chair while the Cheat lies on the floor in front, smoking.}

STRONG BAD:{He stops singing.} No, I got it. A montage of the wagon full of pancakes training—

{Cut to Homestar in a black shirt that says "The #1" looking at the wagon in a field.}

STRONG BAD: —for the championship.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: A wagon fulla pamcakes? In the Champeenship?! I'd like to see ya try!

{Zoom in on pancakes as training music starts to play.}

{Cut to the wagon climbing the steps of a stadium.}

STRONG BAD:{singing}
Guts, guts, and might {The wagon's handle slowly collapses on top of a barbell.}{Cut to Strong Bad and the wagon on a track.}
Liftin' weights and feelin' all right {Strong Bad clicks a stop watch.}{Cut to a silhouette of Strong Bad and the wagon running past a sunset and an ocean.}
It's a showdown going downtown
You're gonna mess around showdown{Cut to the wagon ascending the bleachers again.}
Put your nose down showdown{Cut to quick shot of wagon jumping up and down at the top of the bleachers.}

{Cut to Homestar Runner, who is now wearing a karate black-belt and head-band, and the wagon in a gym as Coach Z looks on in a referee costume.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hi-yah! Hi-yah! {Homestar kicks.}

{The wagon's handle falls on Homestar, just like it did while training with the barbell, and Homestar falls down.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oof!

COACH Z: The pamcakes wins!

{A buzzer sounds and the score changes from 6–6 to 6–7 on the scoreboard.}

STRONG BAD:{singing} Showdown.

{Cut to Strong Bad at the Compy 386.}

STRONG BAD:{typing} Those were some good montages, eh Watered Down? That was like, a montage of montages. The only thing we left out is the end credits photo montage. {Music starts up} Hit it!

{Cut to a glossy of Strong Bad and the wagon in the boat.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: {singing}
Partying... party party party{Cut to glossy of Strong Bad about to kick the wagon.}
It's the weekend... party party party{Cut to glossy of Strong Bad and the wagon in the movie theater.}{Cut to a closeup of The Cheat lying on the floor.}CAPTION: The Cheat never sold a single box of toner. He is currently unemployed.HOMESTAR RUNNER:{still singing} And a wagon... party party party.
Full of pancakes... {Cut to Homestar kicking in the gym.}CAPTION: Homestar sold his "The #1" shirt for $3(US). He got a good deal.HOMESTAR RUNNER:{still singing}party party party{Cut to a glossy of Strong Bad frolicing across the field, the wagon not in the photo.}CAPTION: Strong Bad went on to host some show on Animal Planet.
It was cancelled before the first commercial break.HOMESTAR RUNNER:{still singing} And we're partying... party party party{Cut to the wagon with a fedora.}CAPTION: After winning the champeenship, the Wagon Fulla Pancakes did some local TV spots for a used car dealership.HOMESTAR RUNNER:{singing} It's the weekend... party party party
And we're partying... party party party
Everybody does it tonnniiight...CAPTION: It currently resides in Long Beach with its spouse and 2 children.

At the end, click on "4 Wheels" on the wagon to see Homestar, undefeated in spirit, trying to recreate the tournament scene from The Karate Kid.

HOMESTAR RUNNER:{singing in the now dark champeenship stadium}

I'm the best around!

Sombadubba sombadubba, take me down!

I'm the best around!

Dubba dubba dubbado, take me down!

{His score on the scoreboard behind him turns from 0 to -1 as the buzzing sound is heard.}

At the end, click on "Strong Bad" to see Strong Bad helping the Wagon train.

{Highly pixelated versions of Strong Bad wearing a pink jogging suit and the Wagon Fulla Pancakes are running through a highly pixelated city, which is the New York City backdrop from Punch-Out!! on the NES.}

In filmic terms, scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson define a montage sequence as "a segment of film which summarizes a topic or compresses a passage of time into brief symbolic or typical images." Also, montage sequences generally represent a longer passage of time than the also-typical "dissolve" or "fade" techniques between shots.

The scoreboard in the gym has the word "TIMES" written under the timer.

While Strong Bad is mocking Steve about his poor spelling, he arguably makes a grammar error himself: he ends his sentence with a period instead of a question mark. ("Why don't you creat an alternate reality where you don't have to spell correctly and I talk like this.") Rhetorical questions, however, do not necessarily need question marks.

The first and last house that The Cheat and the Wagon Fulla Pancakes stop at are the same house.

As The Cheat keeps getting doors slammed in his face as a salesman, the last place he visits with the blue wall and white door, the door frame ends before the bottom of the toon's frame, and the right end of the door ends before the right of the frame.

Just after Strong Bad clicks his stopwatch, the landscape shifts slightly and the piles of pancakes change in height and location. This occurs because the jpeg image used for the screen transition didn't exactly match the previous frame.

The song Homestar is singing in the Easter egg ("You're the Best" by Joe Esposito) comes from the 1984 classic The Karate Kid. Homestar's headband, bearing the design of an old Japanese flag, is also a reference to this film, and has appeared before in both pom pom and Theme Song Video.

There is actually a song called "Training Montage" from Rocky IV by Vince DiCola.

Much of the wagon's training sequence (especially the wagon "running" up the stairs) is a parody of the training sequence from the immortal boxing epic, Rocky, including the "Rocky steps".

The Strong Bad Easter egg is a take on the popular NES game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, in which players saw a similar sequence in between bouts of various boxing circuits (the jumps from Minor to Major, and from Major to World).

The Punch-Out!! sequence itself was a clear reference to the training sequence in Rocky.

There actually is a system call in the Unix operating system called creat. It creat(e)s a new file.

The "some guy from a zoo" line by Strong Bad during the "Late-Night Talk Show"-style intro is most likely a reference to how such shows often resort to the gimmick of having zoo workers appear on the show, accompanied by their animal partners, whose mischievous antics can often get a cheap laugh from the audience.

The End Credits Photo Montage song is reminiscent of the Queen song "Headlong."

Animal Planet is a TV network devoted to programs about animals and nature.

The "Where are they now" photos and text at the end of the email are a likely reference to the ending of the 1973 film American Graffiti, where it was first used, or the 1978 movie National Lampoon's Animal House, which popularized its comedic use.

The Paper does indeed stick around until email #173 (the paper), at which time Strong Bad actually does upgrade to an inkjet printer. This change was also foreshadowed in email #172 (more armies) when The Paper comes down torn and sickly-looking. Strong Bad remarks that "that's a bad sign".